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OHHN Collaborative Policy Scan Project
March 2010

The Ontario Heart Health Network: Collaborative Policy Scan Work Group conducted a descriptive study to scan for policies across the 37 OHHP-Taking Action for Healthy Living Community Partnerships in five areas:

Descriptive Study:
A study concerned with and designed only to describe the existing distribution of variables (i.e. types of policies), without regard to causal or other hypotheses.

Source: Last, J. (2001) A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 4th Ed. Oxford University Press.

access to nutritious foods;
access to recreation and physical activity;
active transportation and the built environment;
prevention of alcohol misuse and
prevention of tobacco use and exposure across three sectors
1. Government (district/region; county; municipality; township);
2. Education: school boards and
3. Health Care: hospitals as a worksite (e.g. workplace health policies).

Purpose

The purpose of this scan was to create a baseline inventory of policies that exist at the provincial level based on local data (e.g. formatted raw data) to inform the transition of OHHP-TAFHL Community Partnerships to Healthy Communities Partnerships under the Ministry of Health Promotion's new Healthy Communities Ontario approach to be implemented in 2010 (www.mhp.gov.on.ca/english/default.asp).

Baseline Data:
A set of data collected at the beginning of a study.

Source: Last, J. (2001) A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 4th Ed. Oxford University Press.

Formatted Raw Data:
The formatted raw data are the sample response data obtained directly from the detector instrument (i.e. survey) and processed into a standardized format.

Source:
http://www.brendan.com/glossary.html#f

Collaborative Policy Scan Project Overview

Presentation from OHHN Policy Committee at OHHN Provincial Meeting, March 24, 2010 (March 2010) [PDF, 128Kb]

Results:

OHHN Interactive Discussion Policy Report (October 2010) [PDF 258Kb]

Full Report & Appendicies: Ontario Heart Health Network: Collaborative Policy Scan Project Report (March 2010) [PDF, 5MB]

Report Only: Ontario Heart Health Network: Collaborative Policy Scan Project Report (March 2010) [PDF, 450 Kb]

Appendices Only: Ontario Heart Health Network: Collaborative Policy Scann Project (March 2010) [PDF, 4.5 MB]

Formatted Raw Data Summaries:

43 Summary Reports have been generated:

One Provincial Summary [PDF 180 Kb] that lists the number of policies that exist within the six OHHN Region across the three sectors;
Six OHHN Regional Summaries that lists the number of policies that exist within each of the OHHP-TAFHL Community Partnerships within that region across the three sectors

Central East Region [PDF 180 Kb]

Central West Region [PDF 180 Kb]

Eastern Region [PDF 180 Kb]

North-East Region [PDF 180 Kb]

North West Region [PDF 180 Kb]

South-West Region [PDF 180 Kb]

37 OHHP-TAFHL Community Partnerships Summaries that lists the number of policies that exist by identifying the level of government, school board and hospital.

	OHHN Region	OHHP-TAFHL community partnerships All files are PDF's, ~ 180Kb in size
1.	Central East	Durham Lives Good for Life Take Heart Muskoka Healthy Living Peel Healthyork Intohealth
2.	Central West	Brant Healthy Living Coalition Community Heart Health Network Health Action Healthy Living Hamilton Healthy Living Niagara Together 4 Health Choices for Health
3.	Eastern Region	Health for Life Haliburton, Kawaratha Pine Ridge (HKPR) Health for Life Peterborough Healthy Living Partnership Healthy Rhythm Coalition Hearts @ Work Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark Heart Health Coalition Life Works Ottawa Heart Beat
4.	North-East Region	Sudbury and Manitoulin Heart Health Project Take Heart Algoma Take Heart Cochran District Heart Health Network Take Heart Healthy Living Partnership Timiskaming Heart Health Program
5.	North-West Region	Northwestern Healthy Living Partnership Take Heart Thunder Bay
6.	South-West Region	Grey Bruce Partners in Health Health Action Windsor-Essex Healthy at Heart Elgin Healthy Living Chatham Kent Healthy Living Lambton Healthy Living Partnership Middlesex Healthy Living Perth Take Heart Huron Whole Hearted Living

Over 500 individual reports have been generated which includes the raw data collected and notes written at the local level by the consultants.

To access individual data sets for all 37 community partnerships, please click on the OHHN region(s) of interest. The files have been 'zipped' and you must 'unzip' them to see the individual PDF files. Click here for a free utility to zip/unzip these files. (Note Windows Vista and Windows 7 are able to unzip these files directly - no need to download/install another program).

Central East Region Raw Data [ZIP 14MB]

Central West Region Raw Data [ZIP 13MB]

Eastern Region Raw Data [ZIP 24MB]

North-East Region Raw Data [ZIP 27MB]

North West Region Raw Data [ZIP 9MB]

South-West Region Raw Data [ZIP 22MB]